2-Speed Crossword

Choose either the quick or cryptic clues – answers are the same.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Entitled ‘The One That Got Away’ (5,5) 7. Carry off gun (5)

8. Set bulb round harvest remains (7)

10. A tiny peg in the Middle East (8) 11. Churlish, but was sorry, we hear (4) 13. Some other balanced book of useful plants (6)

15. Keeper of resort during hostilities (6) 17. Runs into sheep (4)

18. Renounce the pretension of 1001 (8) 21. Intrepid damsel finds drug out East (7) 22. 50 move little by little to the shelf (5) 23. Unclaimed mail left by deceased landlord apparently (4,6)

Down

1. A number of staff, if typical (5)

2. Let scrap become ghostly (8)

3. Men say he hasn’t a mind of his own (3-3) 4. Shut like this (4)

5. Spring back despite being tied up again (7) 6. Is there no service charge here? (4,6)

9. It’s whole when halved and has still less feeling (4,6)

12. One of Arthur’s knights could have been tall once (8)

14. Compunction about dots and dashes (7) 16. No tricks when niggard takes on egghead (6)

19. Snake presumably can put two and two together (5)

20. Benevolent type (4)